check out this tax rebate -

[Phil Pascoe]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/ ... ?CMP=fb_gu

It has to apply to some of you. Mine's a pint of Stowford.

 

[Droogs]

almost enough to stop living in sin for

good shout out phil

 

[galleywood]

We found it easy to organise with HMRC and had it back dated too.

 

[monkeybiter]

We found it easy to organise with HMRC and had it back dated too.

Same here, very easy.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

That's a few hundred quid for five minutes work. What's not to like? :lol: =D>

 

[Steve Maskery]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is very very bad?
Couples share the cost of accommodation, energy, insurance, food, just about everything apart from clothing. Single people pay more for almost everything, from car insurance to milk, from holidays to council tax.
And now we are being taxed more highly for being single.
This is appalling.

 

[user 4112]

Stowford's!!! That should be worth a glass of Aspels Phil or has your education been lacking?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Stowford, Weston's, Thatcher's ... I don't rate Aspel's particularly, although they make quite good vinegars. We're inundated with Healey's around here as it's only a few miles away - if you see that, cut out the middle man and pour it down the drain. It's about 0.0001% up market from Strongbow.

 

[Rorschach]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is very very bad?
Couples share the cost of accommodation, energy, insurance, food, just about everything apart from clothing. Single people pay more for almost everything, from car insurance to milk, from holidays to council tax.
And now we are being taxed more highly for being single.
This is appalling.

I completely agree. I am not single but we are not married and do wish to be coerced into doing so for tax breaks. A friend of mine asked us why we were not married and we said we had no interest in it as an outdated institution, he said but you get tax breaks, I asked him if thats why he married his wife, he suddenly went very quiet under her icy glare, I reckon he slept on the sofa that night!

 

[user 4112]

True about Strongbow but Rattler touched the right spots before I discovered Aspels. My annual sojourn to St Ives didn’t start until the first pint in The Sloop. And before I’m blamed for thread drift you started it, hic,

 

[finneyb]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is very very bad?
Couples share the cost of accommodation, energy, insurance, food, just about everything apart from clothing. Single people pay more for almost everything, from car insurance to milk, from holidays to council tax.
And now we are being taxed more highly for being single.
This is appalling.

I completely agree. I am not single but we are not married and do wish to be coerced into doing so for tax breaks. A friend of mine asked us why we were not married and we said we had no interest in it as an outdated institution, he said but you get tax breaks, I asked him if thats why he married his wife, he suddenly went very quiet under her icy glare, I reckon he slept on the sofa that night!

Yesterday was our 45th wedding anniversary - living over the brush was not really an option back then. It did go on to some limited extent but not with our parents. We got married in September because of tax advantages - from memory you could claim the single person tax allowance which took us to September, without paying tax, and then claim the full married man's allowance for the full year.

Tight !! I could make your eyes water.

Brian

 

[Phil Pascoe]

True about Strongbow but Rattler touched the right spots before I discovered Aspels. My annual sojourn to St Ives didn’t start until the first pint in The Sloop. And before I’m blamed for thread drift you started it, hic,

Many moons ago we used to go to St.Ives for the Radio One roadshow. It was a day out, none of us even liked pop music, but it didn't matter - we used to get rat arrssed in the Sloop and never once did we actually get to the Island for the road show.
I suspect Rattler has changed now they are quite a large cider maker, I remember trying it a long while ago and it was OK.
The Healeys are related to the Healey of Healey sports car fame.
"Cornish" cider always makes me laugh - there are hardly any apples of any description grown in Cornwall, it's too windy and the winters are a little warm.

 

[skipdiver]

I got divorced 12 years ago. Do i still qualify? :lol:

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Bah....Humbug!

You miserable bunch of curmudgeonly old farts. Victor Meldrew is alive and well!

 

[monkeybiter]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is very very bad?
Couples share the cost of accommodation, energy, insurance, food, just about everything apart from clothing. Single people pay more for almost everything, from car insurance to milk, from holidays to council tax.
And now we are being taxed more highly for being single.
This is appalling.

It's in the country's interest for people to live as couples, it's good for your mental health and reduces your health care/personal care requirements as you get older. Also reduces the housing requirement, congestion, energy consumption. Many of the valid points you make are a benefit to the country as a whole.
It makes sense for the country to create greater incentives to live together, but I suppose it would be nicer not to.

 

[nabs]

fair point on benefits, but the question to ask yourself is whether there are many people who would really choose married life over singledom because of a few hundred quid of tax savings.

My guess is not, and that in fact there was some other reason for the tax change . Given that the tax does not benefit society - since it is not a real incentive - and single people are not rewarded for their lifestyle, admirable or otherwise, it must be true that they are not being treated fairly (and this tax break must be particularly galling, since they are already penalized financially per the above).

The question of timing a wedding to benefit is a different matter of course - top penny pinching by finneyb above, btw!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Having worked for decades in the catering industry, I can remember the peaks and troughs in wedding reception bookings according to the best financial time of the year for income tax. The churches wouldn't marry you at easter, so depending when that fell the dates either side of it were oversubscribed.

 

[graduate_owner]

Well whatever the ethical arguments, I am always keen to reduce the amount of tax I pay. I have never been unemployed since leaving college through to retiring, albeit having taken early retirement ( many people these days would say I was lucky to have been continuously employed, and I would agree) and I think I have paid my fair share of income tax in that time.

I just need to ensure I minimise inheritance tax for my children now!!l Any more useful links??


K

 

[marcros]

I just need to ensure I minimise inheritance tax for my children now!!l Any more useful links??


K

seek professional advice in plenty of time. There are some tools that you can use to legally minimise tax- for example making lifetime gifts, paying for school fees/insurances and using annual exemptions. You would probably save more than it would cost to do so by seeing a solicitor or a financial advisor.

 

[novocaine]

I'm assuming GO means to spend it all before he goes, such that there is little to tax. a worthy plan if even I heard one and one that I am pushing my mother towards.